Consolidating, Impactful Ideas, and the SAVE Awards - Weekly Roundup

Consolidating, Impactful Ideas, and the SAVE Awards - Weekly Roundup

Newsworthy items around removing costs and improving performance for the week.

This week, we had Tom Temin join us to share his ideas on consolidating the provisioning of IT services. His posts included information about what it means to consolidate, how much could be saved, who has already implemented successful efforts, and what organizations can do to begin implementation themselves.

Look for more from Tom on IT issues and other guest bloggers in coming weeks.

A few other newsworthy items around removing costs and improving performance:

Congratulations to Trudy Givens, Bureau of Prisons award winner for the Securing Americans Value and Efficiency award for recommending a way to cut costs and improve performance in government. Ms. Givens recommends halting automatic delivery of the hard copy version of the Federal Register to all government employees and instead directing employees to the internet version. Whether you call this going green with printing, leveraging the Intranet, or encouraging transparency and dialog via the web, there are certainly costs associated with regular printing, delivery, and disposal of the hard copies. Congrats Trudy! Jeff Zeints’ blog post on this topic includes info on other nominations.